"Greg London" <[email protected]> writes: > Cool! 15 years of perl and I never used /e > > I got the regexp to convert the first file > and discovered that sprintf is way more inconvenient > than I remember. It doesn't return the string, > it returns pass/fail. And it operates on char* ? > > This may have been why I used boost::format. > > Anyone know of a c++ self contained function that takes > a format string and returns the result string > rather than using char*'s and returning the value in > a char*?
The boost::format documentation and the following stack overflow thread refer to a library by James Kanze and John Dibling that pre-dates Boost::Format, but I can't find it with a quick look. Kanze is not enthusiastic about it in his comment, so perhaps he retracted it, but maybe you can track it down: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16696165/any-library-that-does-printf-on-a-c-stream Aside from the above problem with sprintf, I'd be worried about type errors. e.g. boost::format's %s I'm guessing could take a corresponding std::string arg as is, but if you convert that directly you'll blow away your stack, sprintf expecting a char* not a std::string when it sees %s. You could make sure to put .c_str() after, but what other implicit type conversions might be lurking that won't be done by sprintf? What about converting to std::ostringstream instead? -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
